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RSYNC does nothing
Man this ReadyNAS 516 has me puzzled.. it's nifty and much faster than my old nvx but man.. simple things just don't work sometimes. Anway.. I'm having trouble doing an rsync of my user folders ...
Hello dtarin,
Have you tried creating a test backup job? What is the current firmware version of your RN516?
I would suggest try contacting support since this is an RN516, I think they have lifetime CHAT support for ReadyNAS 300 series and above. Login at my.netgear.com and have your NAS registered, have the proof of purchase ready.
Regards,
Test backups: Not sure what you mean. I had rysnc backup jobs and before ReadyCloud deleted my user folders I am 90% certain I had rsync working for those user folders (I hadn't done anything else to get data on my 516 prior to that). I had tried it on two user folders and all the data came over. Also have it working on one public share and that's been working fine with no issue.
Firmware version: 6.5.2
Netgear Support: Can't do it anymore. It's only available within the first 90 days of registering. I"m at about 100 days.. grr. just missed the cutoff.
Still puzzled.. so maybe I will just activate ftp on the nvx and use rsync on the 516 to transfer it in? If nothing else, I may just do a factory reset and start over and see if it works then.
dtarin wrote:
Test backups: Not sure what you mean.
What I mean is simple enough. You cannot enable rsync file access for home folders. The option is grayed out.
So that means an rsync backup job cannot have a remote home folder as a either a source or a destination.
"So that means an rsync backup job cannot have a remote home folder as a either a source or a destination."
Hm.. check this out.
Although you can't enable rsync on home folders, you can still setup an rsync I found out. You can have home folder as aso remote ReadyNAS NVX and destination as a ReadyNAS 516. The readyNAS NVX must have home drive aveilable over FTP (see screenshot).
RSYNC on the 516 can then have the source and destination setup like this. Homes on the ReadyNAS NVX (RAIDiator 4.2.28) are at path /homes/abc123 where abc123 is the same as the login. The destination should be set to local, and just browse and select the user home directory (i.e. /home/abc123).
That worked but as I said, it appears you can't have a true mirror - as deleted files on the source won't be deleted in the destination without being able to turn on "remove deleted files on target". If I can get that work then I'm golden..
who knows what I had setup before.. the ftp on source (nvx) and rsync on destination (516) works fine but it appears I cannot set the backup to remove files deleted at the source "remove deleted files on target".
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